<html><head><base href="x-msg://2485/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Changes coming that should make life easier...<div><br></div><div>(HIstorically, the representation was BITS 16 FOR [0..16_FFFF] instead of the current BITS 8 FOR [0..16_FF])<br>
<br><div><div>On 10 Feb 2010, at 11:22, Jay K wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">You really anticipate it every changing?<br>Ever having machines that can't address bytes?<br>I know they used to exist, but it has been several decades.<br>The world's vast swaths of C, C++, Java, C# won't port easily to them.<br>If I understood you, you argued that it is clearly IByte, so I should<br>feel free to make up my own constants outside of TInt.i3/TWord.i3.<br>Though so far I haven't.<br> <br> - Jay<br><br> <br>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:hosking@cs.purdue.edu">hosking@cs.purdue.edu</a><br>> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:25:31 -0500<br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jkrell@elego.de">jkrell@elego.de</a><br>> CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:m3commit@elegosoft.com">m3commit@elegosoft.com</a><br>> Subject: Re: [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> On 10 Feb 2010, at 16:13, Jay Krell wrote:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > CVSROOT: /usr/cvs<br>> > Changes by: jkrell@birch. 10/02/10 16:13:30<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > Modified files:<br>> > cm3/m3-sys/m3middle/src/: TWord.m3<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > Log message:<br>> > just cleanup a little: make Mask and Base clear and not obfuscated, don't do the same compare twice in a row in xEQ (which should be plain EQ when I'm confident in its correctness, currently what EQ does is compute like three values and verify they all match)<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Mask and Base are computed like that so it is easy to change the underlying representation of Target.Int. We might not have IByte, but instead have IWord!<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>